General rules for the management of the London County lunatic asylums.

Date:
[1904]
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: General rules for the management of the London County lunatic asylums. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    which the old articles of clothing shall become the property of the attendant or servant (shawls and hoods to be excepted from this regulation they always remaining the property of the Asylum). 29. The uniform clothing supplied to the male staff shall remain the property of the Asylum, until the next issue of cloth- ing of the same class or kind upon which the employee shall be allowed to retain the old uniform, with the exception of brass buttons which are to be removed from the uniform and handed to the Steward or Storekeeper. Overcoats in all cases to remain the property of the Asylum. The last issue of uniforms must be worn by attendants when on duty. 30. Employees living out of the Asylum shall, in the event of infectious disease arising in their families, be required to live in the Asylum during such time as the Medical Superintendent may consider necessary, except under special circumstances when other arrangements can be made to the satisfaction of the Medical Superintendent. 31. In case of any employee being required to absent himself from duty in consequence of infectious disease at his home the Sub-Committee of the Asylum are empowered, in their discre- tion, to pay an amount equal to the wages such employee would have received had he been on duty, and in the case of an employee required to reside away from home for a like reason to pay such sum as they may think fit to defray the extra expense so incurred. In the event of an attendant who is non-resident remainm^a the Asylum when ill and being medically treated, he shall for tn^time being be classified as a resident employee and be allowed mlf^gay minus any money allowance for board and lodging. 33. All attendants and se^i^ts entitled to receive good conduct money shall be paid the samfc^n full in the event of their being absent on extended leave durm|^he period or part of the period for which the same becomes due. 34. Attendants or servants resigning their positions shall not be considered to be entitled to the annual leave which would have become due to them had they remained in the service. 35. No officer or servant of an Asylum who is entitled to rations as an emolument, shall under any pretext whatever be allowed to take any portion of such rations from the Asylum.